the child.

On 17 January 2018 the District Court granted V.Zh.’s claim and determined that the child should reside with his father. The applicant was ordered to pay child maintenance.

Parents shall ensure that the child receives a full general secondary education... 4. Parents shall respect the child... 6. It shall be prohibited for parents to exploit their child. 7.

After two long interviews with the child, the District Court reached the conclusion that his development would be endangered if the child had to take up contacts with his father contrary to his mother’

The child-protection services had held that she was in need of guidance on how to care for X.

Relevant domestic law The Family Code of the Russian Federation provides that a parent residing apart from the child is entitled to maintain contact with the child and to participate in his upbringing

child.

There was, in conclusion, a risk that the child would be abducted and hidden from the Child Welfare Service.

Facts – The first applicant was the mother of the second applicant, a minor child.

  During the visit, which lasted one and a half hours, the mother of the child, the Official Solicitor and the child-psychiatrist were present.

child whose parents were divorced.

or possible manipulation of the child.

of the State where the child is shall take or cause to be taken all appropriate measures in order to obtain the voluntary return of the child.”

The morality of child welfare is based on the same principle as the Child Welfare Act, i.e. on the intention to ensure that the best interests of the child are respected, as opposed to the interests of

While in divorce proceedings, the applicant continued to live in the same flat but in separate rooms with his ex-wife M. and their child born in 2003.

is entitled to such contact with, the child.

The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction provides the following:   Article 3   “The removal or the retention of a child is to be considered wrongful where &#

Meanwhile the US court awarded the father sole custody of the child and ordered her return.

Article 12 paragraph 2 of that Act provides that the court shall refuse to order the return of the child if the child is settled in its new environment.